Hello and Welcome to MGJ Postal History

We are offering for sale a wide variety of covers—from stampless covers to First Day Covers, from the very old, to contemporary. While we primarily sell covers, you will also find stamps, other postal items and interesting ephemera for sale. We hope you enjoy the site and visit often. We welcome your comments.

Posted are just some of the items in our inventory. Feel free to email us with requests from your want list.

I am a life member of the American Philatelic Society and am a member of the Society’s estate advisory service. I am also a member and volunteer at the Cardinal Spellman Philatelic Museum in Weston, Massachusetts. In addition, I am a licensed, bonded auctioneer in Massachusetts.

Thank you,Marc Jasmin

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Before you make your initial purchase, you will be asked to create an account. WE WILL NOT REQUEST ANY CREDIT CARD INFORMATION. Once your account is established, you will have the opportunity to review any and all purchases you make from our site. You can bring up your account and print out its contents at any time. Your account is open only to you and is password protected with a password you select.

FIRST DAY COVERS

WE HAVE LISTED SOME FIRST DAY COVERS INDIVIDUALLY ON THE SITE. HOWEVER, WE HAVE AN EXTENSIVE STOCK OF FIRST DAY COVERS -- FROM EARLY TO THE 1990S. MOST EARLY COVERS HAVE CACHETS. OUR STOCK INCLUDES REGULAR ISSUES, COMMEMORATIVES, AIR MAILS, SPECIAL DELIVERY COVERS AND MORE. PLEASE EMAIL YOUR WANT LISTS TO MGJPOSTALHISTORY@POST.COM AND WE WILL SEND IMAGES AND INFORMATION OF ITEMS WE HAVE THAT MATCH YOUR NEEDS.

SEARCHING THE SITE

The site has been created to be very user friendly. Just go to the search box and enter information about what you are looking for. A general term like “stampless covers" or "stampless folded letter” will bring up our entire stock of stampless covers and letters. Entering a community name, or a state, will bring up only those items with those words in the headline.

CLICK ON AN ITEM HEADLINE AND OPEN THAT SPECIFIC ITEM. IF THERE ARE ADDITIONAL SCANS INCLUDED WITH THE ITEM, THEY WILL OPEN AT THAT TIME. We encourage you to investigate the site and find hidden treasures for your collection or investment.

Light but full Worcester postmark and red 5 rate on this stampless folded letter from Goddard & Rice to Hendrick Bros., New York City. Goddard & Rice was a prominent manufacturer of wire, principally barbed wire, in Worcester. No content. Great condition.

Lightly postmarked. Hinge marks on back of both stamps. Offered at less than 1/3 catalog. This is one of two lots of these stamps we are offering at this time. Please see the other pair as well for color differential.

Partial Memphis Tennessee Civil War Era postmark on this cover. Most likely Union Soldier letter home to Iowa. Unusual to have southern postmarks on mail going north. Usually everything was funneled through Washington DC.